Ezekiel:22:2-22
rsv@Ezekiel:22:2 @ "And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominable deeds.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:3 @ You shall say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!
rsv@Ezekiel:22:4 @ You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and defiled by the idols which you have made; and you have brought your day near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:5 @ Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:6 @ "Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:7 @ Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:8 @ You have despised my holy things, and profaned my sabbaths.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:9 @ There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and men in you who eat upon the mountains; men commit lewdness in your midst.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:10 @ In you men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they humble women who are unclean in their impurity.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:11 @ One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you defiles his sister, his father's daughter.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:12 @ In you men take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and increase and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; and you have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:13 @ "Behold, therefore, I strike my hands together at the dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in the midst of you.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:14 @ Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:15 @ I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your filthiness out of you.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:16 @ And I shall be profaned through you in the sight of the nations; and you shall know that I am the LORD."
rsv@Ezekiel:22:17 @ And the word of the LORD came to me:
rsv@Ezekiel:22:18 @ "Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them, silver and bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace, have become dross.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:19 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:20 @ As men gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire upon it in order to melt it; so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:21 @ I will gather you and blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it.
rsv@Ezekiel:22:22 @ As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know that I the LORD have poured out my wrath upon you."
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